The Indian Travel Portal has everything - travel information, tour and hotel bookings, guides, destinations, festivals, and fairs - in 15, handy, alphabetized lists. More is packed in less space for quicker access than in any other travel site for India. Each item links to well-presented information and more links. The booking section takes you to booking services and beyond them directly to hotel websites. The site is searchable and you can subscribe to the portal's newsletter.

This wonderful site takes a primarily graphical approach to presenting information about India, but you wouldn't know it from the opening page. Maps for languages, dams, seismic areas, software parks, monsoons, universities -- over 65 different topics overlaid on the country map of India. A clickable map of the states takes you to another layer with sets of maps for each of the 25 states and 7 territories and links to economic and social profiles. Amazing amount of information in the right format for visual learners.

This government site provides quick access to basic information about the various states and cities of India. A clickable country map is the interface that takes you to the 25 states and 7 territories that make up India. Helpful travel information section also gives you important do's and don'ts. A gallery of slides shows pics in 23 areas, and a tourist cities (A-Z) listing reorganizes information from throughout the site. Good beginning look into the complex world of India.

The Department of Tourism website welcomes you, gives you weather information, an events calendar, some Hindi phrases, a hotel database, and then gets to the goods. The Travel Guide section takes you all around the country with just enough information about each of the states and important cities of India. The site's best work comes in the photo and video galeries, where you can take automated tours of hundreds of slides or watch narrated video clips in 5 categories. Don't let the site's simple front end fool you; this one has the stuff.